Quote Originally Posted by Aeducan View Post
This has been said multiple times in the past but... BLM does NOT need Raise ability. If anything, SMN should loses its raise so casters dmg can be balanced properly and solidify RDM as the only DPS who can raise. I'd reckon RDM dmg will plummet in comparison to the other 2, I honestly have no idea how to balance Vercure/Raise properly because these are useless spells in normal/optimal situations but extremely useful in others, potentially saving the run. No other DPS has the capability to salvage a run as good as RDM, but that requires said run to be bad to begin with, which we don't want.
Right... So of the casters, only Red Mage should have Raise, because... That's harder to balance and you have no idea how that would be properly balanced? Sorry, but it sounds to me like you've either just given reasoning for Red Mage (and Summoner) losing Raise utility entirely, or (as I suggested) making Raise utility a non-unique thing... If it's not unique and effectively a role skill, then it is far simpler to balance, because it's essentially a non-factor when balancing the casters. Making a Job weaker because, as you put it, it can salvage a run from a scenario you don't even want to be in to begin with, is just a really poor design choice.

Something as potentially powerful as Raise should either be on none of the casters, or all of them. That way their individual balancing is not determined by having it or not. All get it, or none get it, either way you make having Raise a non-factor when balancing them, which really should be the goal.

Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
If one were to give raise to BLM it should just be raise. It doesn't need a fancy gimmick. If anything BLM's advantage over RDM's dualcast raise (besides triplecast raise if it's really that bad) is their infinite mana store that RDM can't match.
Honestly, yeah. But with how the games been going lately, I favour Job identity over pure utility, since SE apparently doesn't. I favour gimmicks over every Job having a carbon copy of the same toolkit at this point.